Scientists from James Cook University have discovered two critically endangered species of sea snakes, previously thought to be extinct, off the coast of Western Australia.
Plants & Animals
Dec 21, 2015
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CO2 is the existential threat of our age. Is there a way to get rid of it by burying it in the ground or beneath the sea bed?
Environment
Dec 17, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from several institutions in Europe and Peru has found evidence of an ancient ziphiid (toothed beaked whale) that unlike its modern ancestors, hunted near the surface of the sea. In their ...
Scientists at the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University have been working with marine conservation group Friends of Cardigan Bay to develop better techniques for studying the seabed which is vital for marine ...
Engineering
Mar 26, 2015
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Researchers have identified the key environmental impacts on marine animals during natural global warming in the early Jurassic, 183 million years ago.
Earth Sciences
Mar 2, 2015
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Researchers have identified how warm Atlantic water that is flowing deep into the Arctic Ocean is mixing with colder waters above to contribute to sea-ice loss in the Arctic. The results, published this week in the journal ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 17, 2015
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Environmental activists rallied Friday in anger at the arrival of a boat due to start prospecting for oil in the waters off Spain's Canary Islands, a major tourist destination.
Environment
Nov 14, 2014
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Oil and gas companies are worried about gas discharges at the sea bed. Recent field experiments can now quantify the volumes of gas reaching the sea surface and how they spread in the atmosphere.
Environment
Jun 16, 2014
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Thousands of pieces of plastic have been discovered, submerged along the river bed of the upper Thames Estuary by scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Natural History Museum.
Environment
Jan 2, 2014
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Led by Dr Joanne Porter of Heriot-Watt University, 12 divers from Seasearch, the volunteer dive project co-ordinated by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) were diving in Orkney from the MV Halton, skippered by Bob Anderson.
Ecology
Dec 17, 2013
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